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Global Fixed Income

We aim to identify and capture a diverse range of global fixed income investment opportunities which can be used to construct portfolios with ongoing quality control and measurement of each element of the investment process.

Why Global Fixed Income

Unconstrained idea-based investing generates portfolios with a focus on the quality and diversity of ideas rather than implementing narrower ‘house views’.

How we do it

Our investment philosophy is based on the belief that identifiable and dynamic drivers influence the available investment opportunities. Those drivers include economic and financial factors that change over time and whose impact on prices also change over time.

We think long-term, repeatable investment performance is achievable when quality controls are applied to each element of an investment process. This includes continuous real-time review, a global specialist analyst team who communicate in a common investment language, and full transparency and accountability for investment research and portfolio construction outcomes.
We source ideas from all fixed income teams globally.

These teams, based across Asia Pacific, United States and Europe share and monitor their investment ideas, collaborating on a worldwide scale, through our fixed income platform, the Investment Opinion Network (ION). This enables our team to identify and capture a highly diverse range of global fixed income investment opportunities.

A separate and independently conducted product design process implements the investment ideas in a broad a balance fashion, where clients allow us latitude.. This diversified approach seeks to increase the likelihood of constructing portfolios that meet our clients' objectives.

ESG risks are identified during our bottom-up credit research process and analysed through our own risk framework. This results in a proprietary ESG rank and an internal credit rating to be drawn upon for investment and risk decisions.

Our team

Led by Stephen Johnson, we consist of nine specialists based in Louisville, USA, with an average of 20 years of industry experience.

Importantly, our team is at the centre of the fixed income platform, using ION to collaborate with all teams on a worldwide scale on matters of idea generation, investment research, portfolio design and ongoing quality control.

Beyond the direct team, portfolios are designed to utilise the entirety of this platform, utilising investment ideas across specialists covering global interest rates, currency, credit, and individual issuers in both developed and emerging markets.

Responsible Investment

Responsible Investment

Our corporate RI strategy is based upon three strategic pillars of quality, stewardship and engagement.
The Global Fixed Income team defines Responsible Investment as an investment process that considers environmental, social and governance indicators alongside traditional indicators of financial performance. Importantly, our process does not implement ethical screens. We consider ESG factors relative to their potential impact on financial performance.

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This site, and the information on it, are provided for information purposes only and do not constitute an invitation, offer or solicitation to engage in any investment activity including to buy or sell any investment including any interest in any fund. Any financial service or investment involves risk. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amount originally invested.